The 2016–17 season was Vasas Football Club's 86th competitive season, 2nd consecutive season in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I and 115th year in existence as a football club. In addition to the domestic league, Vasas participated in this season's editions of the Magyar Kupa.
This was the last season the team played at the Illovszky Rudolf Stadion built in 1960, before it is finally demolished to make room for the new ground. On 29 October 2016, first placed Vasas hosted second placed Videoton in a 1–1 draw in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I at the farewell match.
Vasas temporarily played at the home of teams from Budapest. The last two games of the first half of the season were played at the Bozsik József Stadion of Honvéd. In the second half of the season, the club played their home games at Újpest's Szusza Ferenc Stadion. In matches against the latter club, the home of the opposing team cannot be chosen as the venue for the matches between them for Vasas, according to the competition rules. Therefore, the Magyar Kupa match were played at the Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion of MTK, where the 26th round again at the Bozsik.
The team fought with Honvéd and Videoton for the title, which they finally had to relinquish due to the defeat against Paks in the 30th round. After 11 years, they also reached their 8th Magyar Kupa final, where they lost the match 5–4 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time against Ferencváros.
Squad
Transfers Transfers in Transfer windowPos.No. PlayerFrom Summer FW — Patrik Horváth Youth team MF — Dávid Kovács Youth team DF — Zoltán Szilágyi Youth team DF — Olivér Tóth Youth team MF 3 Manjrekar James Diósgyőr FW 12 Botond Király Rákosmente DF 19 Felix Burmeister Free agent MF 20 Márk Kleisz Youth team DF 28 Tamás Vaskó Békéscsaba FW 66 Mahir Sağlık Free agent FW 70 Tamás Kulcsár Debrecen FW 88 Dániel Gergye Free agent Winter FW 14 Bálint Gaál Haladás
Transfers out Transfer windowPos.No. PlayerTo Summer DF — László Tamás Balmazújváros FW 9 Ilias Ignatidis Released MF 12 Miloš Adamović Radnik Surdulica MF 15 Mátyás Gál Siófok DF 26 Tamás Grúz Budafok GK 31 Bence Hermány Released MF 37 Christian Müller Released FW 42 Norbert Könyves Debrecen DF 93 Danijel Romić Hapoel Katamon Winter FW 77 Péter Czvitkovics Released
Loans in Transfer windowPos.No.PlayerFromEnd date Summer GK 33 Vukašin Poleksić Békéscsaba End of season
Loans out Transfer windowPos.No.PlayerToEnd date Summer FW — Patrik Horváth Budaörs End of season MF — Dávid Kovács Siófok End of next season DF — Zoltán Szilágyi Siófok End of next season DF — Olivér Tóth Budaörs End of season FW 99 Csanád Novák Gyirmót End of season Winter DF 2 Attila Osváth Debrecen End of season DF 14 Csaba Preklet Cegléd End of season Source:
Competitions Overview
Nemzeti Bajnokság I
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
Magyar Kupa
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics Overall Appearances (Apps) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only, including sub appearances.Source: Competitions No.PlayerPos.Nemzeti Bajnokság IMagyar KupaTotalAppsAppsApps1 GK 29 2 5 34 2 2 DF 3 1 2 5 1 3 MF 11 6 1 6 2 2 17 2 8 14 DF 31 2 7 8 1 39 2 8 6 MF 15 4 3 18 4 7 DF 30 3 1 8 2 1 38 2 4 18 FW 24 7 6 6 1 30 8 6 10 FW 30 3 5 9 2 1 39 5 6 12 FW 10 2 1 5 15 2 1 13 MF 32 6 4 1 9 3 41 9 4 114 FW 13 2 5 1 18 2 1 14 DF 1 1 17 FW 20 3 1 2 1 22 4 1 19 DF 27 3 5 8 2 35 3 7 20 MF 20 1 7 1 27 1 1 21 DF 23 2 8 7 2 30 4 8 23 MF 25 1 4 5 30 1 4 24 GK 27 FW 20 2 1 5 1 25 3 1 28 DF 24 6 6 8 1 1 32 7 7 33 GK 4 4 39 FW 6 2 1 2 3 8 5 1 42 FW 1 1 66 FW 25 6 3 1 10 7 2 35 13 5 170 FW 12 2 1 6 3 1 18 5 2 77 FW 5 2 1 7 1 88 FW 1 1 89 DF 16 3 4 20 3 90 GK 5 5 98 FW 99 FW 4 4 99 MF Own goals 1 1Totals50734301280854
Clean sheets Clean sheetsNo.PlayerGames PlayedNemzeti Bajnokság IMagyar KupaTotal 1 Gergely Nagy 34 6 1 7 90 Dániel Póser 5 3 3 33 Vukašin Poleksić 4 1 1 24 Zoltán Tomori 0 0Totals74 11
Notes
References
External links Fixtures and results Archived Official Website